Button.



.JOSEPH W. SCHLOSS, OFNEW YORK, N. Y.

BUTTON.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 20, 1909.

Application led October 6, 1908.` Serial No. 456,365.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JosnPnW. SCHLOSS, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of NenT York, in the borough of `Manhattan andState of Nev.T York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of Which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to soft or iieXible buttons of the sort Which are used on ladies cloaks or garments, and Which lare made in varying sizes and shapes. c

In my Patent No. 866,817, issued September 24, 1907, I have set forth a-form of button 'which is very soft and spongyk in its teX- ture, in accordance with the trade. requirements in this class 'of goods. rfhis button is formed by taking a disk of felt or other spongy but coherent substance and knitting, crocheting or braiding a fabric cover or envelop thereon. This button proves very satisfactory in use, except that the soft spongy character makes it rather less efficient as a fastening device than a button of the ordinary sort. This is particularly true Where the button is f used on'ladies cloaks as a fastening for the frog or braided loop Which is sometimes employed in lieu of a button hole. Y

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a button which khas substantially all the spongy characteristics as set forth in my prior patent, butn'hich is more efiicient as a fastening device and Which is supported slightly oset or-elevated away from the surface of the garment to .-'hich it is secured, so as to give more room for the frog or button hole with Which it cooperates.

A further object of the invention is to provide a soft, spongy button which will notbe so completely distorted or drawn out of shape by the strains to Which it is subjected in the holding action as to fail to hold the buttonhole or frogwith which it may be engaged, orto lose its ornamental appearance.

A further object of the invention is to provide a fastening of greater security than heretofore by which the button is attached to the sup orting garment.

A stil further obj ect of the invention is to provide a button core or body as an article of manufacture Which is adapted to be sold or furnished to purchasers who may desire to supply covers to suit their own particular tastes or purposes. As Will later appear, l

provide an envelop which canbe made sepay, rately and afterward applied to the button, i

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in place of my previous construction, `where the button Was employed as a former in the crocheting process.

wit-"ith these and various other objects in view', my invention consists in the features of construction as hereinafter set forth and claimed. l

ln the drawings: Figure 1 is a side viewv showing the separate parts of a button core or body embodying the principles of my in- Fig. 2 sho-.vs a completed button core or body. Fig. 8 shears the braided or fabric envelop. Fig. 4- is a sectional View of the completed button. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of a completed button. Fig. 6 is a sectional vien7 showing a slightly modified core.

1 designates a disk of spongy but coherent substance such as felt which is conveniently made by punching out a circular portion from a flat` sheet of material of proper thickness. "VJhile these disks are very soft, flexible and spongy, it is evident that they have, nevertheless, a definite shape to which they return after deformation in the manner of felt' and analogous coherent, 'spongy suhstances generally. These characteristics of having great softness and exibility, and at the same timehaving a definite shape under normal conditions, are regarded as the important ones for the button core or filler employed by me. Since the disks are all stamped from sheets of felt of uniform texture and thickness, it is evident that they are exactly alike in all matters of form, size, teture, density and Weight, as required. Upon this core l assemble a disk 2, made of hard pasteboard, metal or other rigid material Which has preferably, although not necessarily, a diameter about that of the felt core or body 1. This disk has a central hole or aperture 3.

4 designates a loop made of a Wire or sheet metal strip or similar material somewhat in the form of a paper fastener, and having prongs 5 which may be inserted through the hole of the disk and preferably through a small additional metal Washer 6. The Washer 6 is important in practice when the disk 2 is of cardboard or the like, as it prevents the prongs 5 from tearing out through the cardboard disk and furnishes substantially as great security in the fastening as if the disk itself Were made of metal. If the prongs are bent over in the manner shown in Fig. 4, and the disk assembled and secured adjacent to the felt core l, it is evident that a complete button core or body is provided in the manner shown in Fig. 2. ',lhis 'button core is very spongy, but has a convenient shank 4 which will, moreover, maintain the button slightly oil'set or elevated from the surface of the garment to Which it is at tached. T he disk 2 may be glued. or pasted to the core l if desired, but this is not necessary except as a means of associating the parts of the core until the fabric cover or envelop is applied. The fabric cover 7 may be knitted, crocheted or braided in the cup shaped form shown in Fig. 3 entirely separate from the core or body of the button. Afterward the cover may be drawn over the core and the edges gathered around shank Ll by taking a fewA stitches 8 therein, so as to completely inclose the core and produce a coinpleted button of the outline shown in Figs. 4 and 5. rPhe pasteboard or other disk 2 is in this Way entirely covered up, but the shank 4 is left protruding through any distance required, by Which the button admirably serves all its utilitarian purposes, as well as possessing the soft, spongy character required-by the trade in this class of goods.

ln place of a rigid metallic shank 4 a tuft of fabric 9 (see Fig. 6) may be employed in exactly the same relation. ln this case, the

button Would be sewed on the garment through the fabric tuft in place of through the loop of the metallic fastening device.

What I claim, is:

l. As an article of manufacture, a button core of spongy but coherent substance having a rigid disk associated therewith on the rear face thereof, a fastening device engaged between said disk and core and projecting from the center of said disk, and a fabric cover, said cover directly enveloping said core and disk and depending solely thereon for its support and shape.

2. A button having a core of spongy but coherent substance and a disk of rigid material associated therewith on the rear face thereof, and a fabric cover, said cover directly enveloping said core and disk and depending solely thereon for its support and shape.

ln witness whereof, l subscribe my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH W. SCHLOSS.

l@ itnesses WALDo M. CHAPIN, JAMES DAN'roNro. 

